Israeli aircraft fired two missiles early Sunday at an armored car belonging to the Reuters news agency, wounding five people, including two cameramen, Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials said.The Israeli army said it did not realize the car's passengers were journalists and only attacked because the vehicle was driving in a suspicious manner near Israeli troops in the middle of a combat zone.A Hamas militant was killed in a separate airstrike, hospital officials said.The airstrike on the journalists' car came as Israeli soldiers backed by two dozen tanks, two bulldozers, helicopters and drone planes moved into an area just inside the Gaza Strip near the Karni crossing, witnesses and Palestinian security officials said.... http://www.usatoday.com

Just before nightfall, Yezong Zumu seeks the charity of the caterpillar fungus diggers, whose mountain shacks offer respite from the bitter winds that slice across the stony Himalayan plain, 4,000 metres above sea level. A roof is all she needs until dawn, when she sets off again, chanting scriptures, fingering her prayer beads and slowly trekking around the sacred mountain, Xiannairi.For almost all of her 67 years, it has been thus for this Buddhist - living close to nature, close to the spiritual and precariously close to starvation. It is not unusual in this southern corner of Sichuan province, where - such is the sense of the mystic, the beautiful landscape and the remoteness of the location - local people believe that they live in a real-life Shangri-la despite enduring the most wretched poverty....http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1859248,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=12

The Pentagon on Saturday said it transferred five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan, leaving about 445 detainees at the naval base in Cuba. "These detainees were all recommended for transfer due to multiple review processes conducted at Guantanamo Bay," the Pentagon said in a statement posted on its Web site on Saturday. The Pentagon did not disclose the names of the prisoners being transferred to Afghanistan or disclose any further details. About 120 of the remaining 445 detainees may be eligible for transfer or release pending a series of reviews, the statement said. "Departure of these remaining detainees approved for transfer or release is subject to ongoing discussions between the United States and other nations," the statement said. In late June, 14 Saudi Arabian nationals were sent home, two weeks after three suicides at the facility thrust U.S. handling of terrorism suspects back into the spotlight...http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060827/ts_nm/security_guantanamo_afghan_dc

Lebanon's information minister on Saturday criticized the arrest of a businessman in New York on charges of providing satellite broadcasts of Hezbollah's Al-Manar television to New York-area customers. Javed Iqbal, a 24-year-old businessman originally from Pakistan, was arrested Wednesday in New York on conspiracy charges of enabling broadcasts of Al-Manar designated by the U.S. government as a global terrorist entity. "As a Lebanese citizen first, and as an official in the Lebanese government and information minister of Lebanon, I find this to be unacceptable," Ghazi Aridi told reporters in Beirut. U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said Iqbal used satellite dishes at his Staten Island home to distribute the broadcasts through a Brooklyn company called HDTV Limited. Al-Manar features news programming that promotes Hezbollah, which is on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist organizations. Its headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut were repeatedly bombed...http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2360948

Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels agreed on Saturday to leave their hideouts and assemble at two south Sudanese camps in a major breakthrough in efforts to end one of Africa's longest wars, mediators said.Under a deal with Uganda's government that commits both sides to cease all attacks and hostile propaganda, LRA fighters have three weeks to gather at the two locations while talks continue to end their two-decade insurgency."We hope that now the two principals will take action so that the guns can go silent," said the chief mediator, southern Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar, referring to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and LRA commander Joseph Kony.The deal is due to take effect at 0600 GMT on August 29....http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/08/26/Uganda.LRA.reut/index.html?section=cnn_world

Tropical Storm Ernesto threatened to become the year's first hurricane in the oil-producing Gulf of Mexico, putting New Orleans and other possible targets on alert a year after Hurricane Katrina ripped the Southern U.S. city apart. Warm Atlantic waters in Ernesto's path could powerfully strengthen the storm as it approaches the Gulf, home to a quarter of U.S. crude oil and natural gas production, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Saturday."Ernesto could become a potentially dangerous hurricane as it moves across the northeastern Caribbean sea and the Gulf of Mexico," forecaster Jack Beven said in a bulletin from the Miami-based hurricane center.Ernesto, the fifth tropical storm, would become the first hurricane of the six-month Atlantic hurricane season, which began on June 1....http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060827/ts_nm/weather_storm_dc